Gandhi said "the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated".

The emergence of a disturbing video depicting the merciless torture of a protected shark in
Western Australia throws into question the integrity of the local government due to it’s complete and utter lack of action.

VIGILANTE fishermen in Australia are hunting, killing and even torturing sharks for sport and conservation groups say new laws allowing great white sharks to be destroyed have "demonised"
all sharks and encouraged vigilantes.

The video depicts a Dusky Shark lynched by a rope around its neck and left strung up with its stomach cut wide open and entrails hanging. The defenceless creature then endures endless
blows to the head by its cowardly attacker with a piece of steel all the while thrashing around, still alive, in a vain attempt to escape the obvious agony.

The Western Australian government are ignoring the matter, the Western Australian Police are washing their hands of it and The Department of Fisheries Western Australia are turning a blind eye.

The video, along with intimidating and inflammatory comments, was posted to the wall of a Facebook page for shark conservation by a person using the Facebook profile name - PAUL SULLIVAN.

The perpetrator stated, in a public arena, that he was in possession of other videos of similar
content depicting him and his accomplices torturing and killing numerous
sharks, claiming that in one video, he shoots a tiger shark.

Posted Nov-11-2012 By

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Paul Sullivan is a well known Animal Rights (and everything else) activist who would never let the facts get in the way of a good story, and is well known for "stretching" the truth to suit his own agenda.

No evidence whatsoever seen here that this occurred in Western Australian waters. With what you see here, it could have happened off the coast of China or in Miami harbour. Not surprisingly, the perpetrator is excluded from the vid - no way to check his/her ethnicity.

Oh, and I caMore..n guarantee that if the police or fisheries had seen this and it was in W.A., they would have hunted down the perps. One guy just got fined $7,000 for hitting a kangaroo with a stick in W.A.

Posted Nov-11-2012 By

scrote

Posted Nov-11-2012 By

Toadster

@pauliec17 Hate to burst the bubble of 'Long Dong Silver' who posted this psycho babble video...but I'm an avid fisherman and the first time I caught a 4 foot blacktip shark, I cleaned and gutted it like any other fish and placed it into an industrial-sized cooler that could barely hold it, but was buried in ice. I made the hour long drive back home and when I went to get the shark out of the cooler so I could clean and process it, the motherfucker thrashed about in my kitchen just as violently More..when I first pulled it out of the water! Sharks are by no means easy to kill and they are very, very tough. This video is not necessarily torture, especially for one creature that is over 10 feet long!Less..

Posted Nov-11-2012 By

Toadster

@Gorilla Biscuit I think you totally missed the point.. as an avid fisherman I either catch and release my catches if it's a species that isn't of legal size limit or if said species was not something I planned on taking home. Gutting and cleaning the fish is the worst part, I never laugh about the whole process, what sane person would find joy in that?

TheMorningstar

Posted Nov-13-2012 By

jusfuknwidya

At least its not the fucking chinese catching thousands upon thousands of sharks only to cut off their fins and throw them back in to suffer and suffocate slowly. Just about every animal that is endangered or protected in some way is desired by the chinese for use in completely fucking bogus chinese medicine like, rhino horns, tiger penises, elephant ivory, pangolin scales, shark fins, sun bear bile, cordycepts etc. These all have one thing in common, they don't do shit for humans, but the chineMore..se will kill them wholesale and charge thousands of dollars which the newly rich nation gobbles up.Less..

Posted Nov-11-2012 By

Loempia741

Western Australian here. Although most people including myself dont like to see an animal suffer. Sounds like OP is trying to draw some stupid conclusions on a general populous from a isolated or rare event. I can confirm they sound Western Australian to me. Apparently the incidence of shark attacks and spotting is increasing in Western Australia.

bigverningermany

Posted Nov-11-2012 By

shizzlemynizzle

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@skunk2 shitty? well...we have a higher dollar value than the US, higher wages, a good economy that didn't go into recession, we live in a nation with paradise all around the coastline...we have a high standard of living, universal healthcare, education, public transport, etc so yeah....ill take this shitty nation any day

Posted Nov-11-2012 By

Einzelkind

'Pheasant Hunters Save Deer Locked At Antlers'...i thought 'aaaah'....
And now this. How can someone ffs have fun doing this? Just kill it, it may be satisfying for someone to see suffer some people that 'deserve' it, but its not fun anyway. They are just genuinely laughing, rly, why would anyone laugh? It may be interesting for some strange people or something, but im sure its not supposed to make u laugh.....oh man